For those who may be interested, check out the new list of WordPress plugins used on this site. I’m very picky about my plugins, so there’s some really great stuff to be had there. I highly recommend every single item on that list.
The simplest, but most insanely wonderful plugin ever? Filosofo Uncheck Default Category. I can’t tell you how much time and aggrivation this one’s saved me…
I figured there’s no point in tossing these things in the trash anymore, I may as well blog it and hope someone finds some use out of it…
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Enjoy, and if you use this code, I’d appreciate it if you’d post a quick comment letting me know… I’m sure there are more to come!
My final class for my Networking degree is a “real world application” class. You get a basic RFP that outlines specs for a ficticious company’s new network, and your team has to write up a professional quote for it, pretending to be a consulting company bidding on the project.
For our project, we’re bidding on the network of a company called “Outdoor Equipment Supplies (OES)”. Our team decided on the name “Port 22 Consulting”, and we’ve got a max budget of $150,000 to spend on all the hardware, software, and networking equipment for this company.
Being a fan of networking, I decided to do the Network portion1. Essentially, it comes down to a main headquarters and a few branch offices consisting of about 35 people. The main office will have users and all the servers, which everyone has to be able to access.
Pretty basic corporate network, right? Well, tell me what you think:
Obviously the DMZ segment isn’t complete yet, mainly since we’re still fluctuating on the number of servers we’ll need. I also haven’t decided exactly what I’m going to recommend as the internet connection for each office. I was thinking a T1 may be beefy enough for the main office, and whatever DSL or cable connection they can get cheaply for each branch office2. Any input on that either?
Assuming I have time (and the motiviation later-on), I also plan on doing per-switch port lists, indicating which rooms a given port maps to. It seems so sad to do more network diagraming for a ficticious class project than I’ve actually done for our corporate network at work, but such is life…
Hot on the heals of my last post is the news that you can now tether Verizon phones with your laptop1.
Sure you have to pay $60 extra a month for it, and it still doesn’t work with the Treo, but it’s a step in the right direction, right?
If only I could justify it… Ohhh if only!
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